Framingham, MA - The Framingham State College women's basketball
team will be one of over 1,250 institutions and organizations
participating in the 2009 Women's Basketball Coaches Association
(WBCA) Pink ZoneTM initiative when the Rams host MCLA on
Saturday, February 14th, 2009.
The WBCA Pink ZoneTM initiative is a global, unified
effort for the WBCA nation of coaches to assist in raising breast
cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and
beyond. This year's campaign runs from February 13-22, the
Rams will be doing their part on the 14th during both
the women's and men's games.
The WBCA Pink Zone, formerly known as "Think Pink", began in
2007 as an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's
basketball, on campuses and in communities. In that first
year 120 schools participated and last year over 1,100 team and
organizations took part.
The Rams will be wearing pink t-shirts for pregame warm-up and
are encouraging those fans in attendance to show their support by
wearing pink. They will also be dedicating the games to those
in their lives that have been affected by breast cancer. The
Rams will be collecting donations for pink memory ribbons that will
be hung throughout the gym. The proceeds will be donated to
the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer FundTM, which was created in
partnership with The V Foundation for Cancer Research in December
2007.
The Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer FundTM, named for longtime
North Carolina State women's basketball coach Kay Yow who recently
passed away after a lengthy battle with breast cancer, raises money
in the fight against women's cancers.
For more information on the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer
FundTM and the WBCA Pink ZoneTM initiative,
please visit www.wbca.org.
